Suspect in Ripon standoff identified

RIPON - The Manteca Police Department on Friday identified Jason Stowers, a 32-year-old Manteca resident, as the man who was shot during a four-hour standoff with authorities Tuesday at Van Unen Miersma Propane Inc.

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By The Record

Posted Mar. 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM

By The Record

Posted Mar. 2, 2013 at 12:01 AM

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RIPON - The Manteca Police Department on Friday identified Jason Stowers, a 32-year-old Manteca resident, as the man who was shot during a four-hour standoff with authorities Tuesday at Van Unen Miersma Propane Inc.

According to police, Stowers crashed a car into a propane tank, shot a person with a pellet gun made to resemble a semiautomatic handgun, pointed the weapon at police and was shot by officers after barricading himself in the cab of a tanker truck. He was treated for a non-life-threatening injury.